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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447011138235 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • +448704713944 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)

Fraud email example:

From: BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFIC <agentrichardparker_01@fadmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:56:09 -0500
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS !!!

BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:
28 TAN FIELD ROAD,
CROYDON, LONDON.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement today,
of winners of the BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO
PROGRAMME, held on the 11th of November, 2006. Your e-mail address attached to
ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the
lucky numbers:01-14-21-3-35-48, and a bonus number of 24 which
subsequently won you the lottery in the second category. You have
therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £253,437.00 in cash credited
to KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £2,534,370.00
shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winnersin this category.

All participants of this online promotion programme were selected
randomly from numerous World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and
extracted from close to 125,000 unions. Your assigned claims agent will
immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your
funds as soon as you contact him via electronic mail(email).

To file for your claim,You are adviced to fill the form below.

1. FULLNAMES:
________________________________________

2. DATE OF
BIRTH:
_____________________________________

3. SEX:
___________________________

4. MARITAL STATUS:
_____________________________________

5.CONTACT ADDRESS:
____________________________________

6.TELEPHONE
NUMBER:
________________________________________

7.OCCUPATION:
________________________________________________

8.BRIEF DESCRIPTION
OFCOMPANY/INDIVIDUAL:_/_________________________________________

9.
INDICATE PREFERRED MODE OF PRICE COLLECTION
(A)CHEQUE
(B)DRAFT
(C)BANK
TRANSFER
IF BANK TRANSFER,( Details of your account)
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________

Upon Receipt of the duly requested datas,i`ll send you the contact
information of the payment office so you can proceed with effecting the
release of your claims

CONTACT OUR FIDUCIARY AGENT


AGENT: Mr.Richard Parker
Email: agentrichardparker_01@fadmail.com
Phone: +44-701-113-8235
Fax. +44 870 471 3944


Yours Truly,

Sir Milner Graham
Co-ordinator(Online Promo Programme)

Anti-fraud resources:

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